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Subject:	RE: Excude whole libs when building w32 dlls with -export-all
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Date:	Sat, 27 Apr 2002 19:09:51 +1000
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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Danny Smith" <danny_r_smith_2001 AT yahoo DOT co DOT nz>,
	"binutils" <binutils AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Smith [mailto:danny_r_smith_2001 AT yahoo DOT co DOT nz] 
> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 5:48 PM
> To: binutils
> Cc: cygwin-apps
> Subject: Excude whole libs when building w32 dlls with -export-all
> 
> 
> The auto-export feature of ld for pe-dll targets would be 
> more flexible with an option to exclude whole archive libs 
> from export.

Can we detect libs and automatically exclude symbols from shared
libraries? 

i.e. when linking against libcygwin.a, ALL symbols therein are from a
dll, so -by default- should not be exported.

That would remove the need for many default exclusions, and be closer to
unix behaviour (as I understand it).

Rob

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